Motivating the development of a virtual process chain for sheet molding compound composites

Abstract This contribution presents a physical process chain and the corresponding virtual process chain for sheet molding compound (SMC) composites. Here, focus lies on the physical process chain as a motivation for the virtual process chain as discussed in the authors' publication [1]. The key steps of the virtual process chain are the identification of initial and boundary conditions, the compression molding simulation, the mapping of data …